RESOLVED: Service Disruption 09:12 GMT 10 Mar 2009
By Walt on Tuesday, March 10 2009, 13:02 - Service status - Permalink
DETAIL: This morning we suffered a distributed denial of service attack on one of our sites. This affected the speed at which others sites could be accessed which in some cases resulted in time-outs for some users.
RESPONSE: Engineers identified the problem early, However time was needed to establish how the attack was being conducted in order to block it.
UPDATED 10:01: The attack has been blocked and services should have returned to normal.
RECOVERY: Some users may have experienced login issues following the resolution, although clearing the cache would have easily resolved this problem. Other than this no other sites have been impacted by this event.
FOLLOW UP: We are now reviewing what steps we can take to minimise the risks of this occurring again.